"Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place and I don't care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard ya hit. It's about how hard you can get it and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done! Now if you know what you're worth, then go out and get what you're worth. But ya gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody! Cowards do that and that ain't you! You're better than that!"

No one ever wants to cut corporate welfare (military spending) or entitlement programs (social security & medicare). That's 60-70% of your taxes right there. The latest agreement between Obama and the Republican congress is insane. Extend tax cuts and extend unemployment benefits. So who pays for it? No one. Just keep adding to the debt.

I have no problem with unemployment benefits if they're paid for. I have no problem with cutting taxes if spending is reduced. But the opposite keeps happening every time.

Good thing we have those brilliant Republicans in charge of congress now to watch federal budget. Lately, they've been complaining about taxes going to the National Science Foundation or NPR, which is paid for by probably less than 0.1% of all federal taxes.

Still no word on reducing social security, medicare, or military spending.

The truth is that stuff will never get reduced. You'll need a permanent source of income for the federal government to pay for all this spending in a country of 300 million people. That's what the braindead Ron Paul libertarians will never understand.

I am all for cutting SSI. Parts of it anyways. The government just gives our hard earned tax money away. I know people that are getting Social Security disability checks for their kid just because she has a speech problem. WTF I also knew someone that get hurt, fell off a roof, broke his back and ankle. He was on Disability. He could walk and everything. ( I am not saying he never had pain) but he may not have been able to do what he did when he got hurt, but he could have done something else instead of the government giving him disability.

Too many people are milking the system. With all this unemployment, the states have to come up with money for it also and they are going broke. It's ashame people lost their jobs.. But we should not have to pay for your unemployment benefits for over 3 years. That's just ridicules. It makes people more dependent on the the government, which is what the democrats want.

I am all for getting rid of the IRS and having a flat tax. I don't care if you make a dollar or 1 million dollars, you take a flat percentage from it. That way everyone is paying.

Another way the government can save money is to stop all these welfare programs. Make people work. I know people that get $5000 back per kid every year from the goverment and they are middle class people. Just because you are married and have kids does not mean you should get tax breaks and money back for your brats. That's just more waste from the government.

Medicare can be cut also. make the elderly get on heath plans just like the average american is.

Military can't be cut. That is an actual job of the government stated in the constitution.

Section 4 - Republican government

"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence." http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html#Preamble

Sorry for my rant. It just frustrates me that our government is out of control. Both the republicans and the democrats and I see no chance in sight.

Everyone's pretty much hitting on the head, cut the deadweight programs this country has, and stupid government funded organizations that don't need to be involved in anything. Not much, but it's a start.

And hell yeah on the supplies the government is charged for. I just ordered new claw hammers @ $60 a piece... >_>

Everyone's pretty much hitting on the head, cut the deadweight programs this country has, and stupid government funded organizations that don't need to be involved in anything. Not much, but it's a start.

And hell yeah on the supplies the government is charged for. I just ordered new claw hammers @ $60 a piece... >_>

That's not entirely true. Lowering taxes does two things
It gives everyone more money to spend and thus grows the economy, and
It has an effect on tax avoidance tactics. If taxes are lower, people are less likely to seek out ways to hide their money, etc (In theory).

When you lower taxes and the economy grows, the govt ends up taking in just as much money. 30% of $100 is the same as 25% of 120

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Tax increases/decreases are a moot point at this juncture, our government is spending money that doesn't EXIST. It is phantom currency that burdens the legitimate currency that is in circulation, thus dragging the cumulative value of all of our assets down.